It's a slightly older Synology 1817+, 8 bay, all filled with smaller older drives... 24TB RAID6. It's powered by a UPS and I set it to put the disks to sleep to reduce power consumption.
That's the basics... Beyond that, everything is disabled that was shipped with it except Windows and Apple file sharing locally.
Then I've installed the SynoCommunity version of SyncThing.
I have multiple users in the house and each person has a folder on the NAS which is their home network share and only accessible to them (and me as server admin)... things like Time Machine will have this as their backup drive and they can also dump larger files there. Within each person's network share is a directory that is mapped to SyncThing. On each of their laptops their folder is also on a local SyncThing. This means there's a shared folder on their laptop and network share which SyncThing will keep in Sync when off of the LAN, and when on the LAN they can use any computer to access the folder via network. But mostly, locally on their laptop they just work on local files and don't have to think about how it all keeps in sync.
Finally I make a cold backup once a month to an 18TB HDD USB drive which I store outside of the house except for this once per month task. This is backup via rsync.
That's it. Fairly simple. I only use a NAS for file storage and SyncThing, nothing else.
That's the basics... Beyond that, everything is disabled that was shipped with it except Windows and Apple file sharing locally.
Then I've installed the SynoCommunity version of SyncThing.
I have multiple users in the house and each person has a folder on the NAS which is their home network share and only accessible to them (and me as server admin)... things like Time Machine will have this as their backup drive and they can also dump larger files there. Within each person's network share is a directory that is mapped to SyncThing. On each of their laptops their folder is also on a local SyncThing. This means there's a shared folder on their laptop and network share which SyncThing will keep in Sync when off of the LAN, and when on the LAN they can use any computer to access the folder via network. But mostly, locally on their laptop they just work on local files and don't have to think about how it all keeps in sync.
Finally I make a cold backup once a month to an 18TB HDD USB drive which I store outside of the house except for this once per month task. This is backup via rsync.
That's it. Fairly simple. I only use a NAS for file storage and SyncThing, nothing else.